News Release Number: STScI-2013-10

NASA's Webb Telescope to Have a Texas-Sized Presence at the South by Southwest Festival

February 19, 2013: Everything's bigger in Texas, and a life-sized model of the world's largest space telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, will be on display at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival along with Webb-related exhibits, educational events, interactives, visualizations, scientists, and much more. The NASA events at SXSW will occur March 8-10, 2013, in Austin.

The Webb telescope model is coming to SXSW just in time to highlight the fact that this spring NASA is starting to bring together some of the major
parts of the observatory. In 2013, NASA will begin to integrate the four
science instruments that will be attached to the telescope. NASA is
partnering with Northrop Grumman, the Space Telescope Science Institute,
Ball Aerospace, Microsoft Research, and the University of Texas'
Astronomy Department to bring an amazing display of science and
technology to SXSW. For more information about the SXSW festival and the
Webb Telescope SXSW events, visit: http://sxsw.com/ and http://go.nasa.gov/JWSTsxsw.